We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Myself I must remake.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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